VMware just launched a new online facility called Labs.
This is similar to what companies like Microsoft and Google do.
At the moment Labs hosts ten projects, all released as Technology Previews, under open source licenses, without any support and without any indication about future inclusion in the VMware product portfolio. The ones listed at present are:
- Apache Pivot
- Dynamo RIO
- esxplot
- Onyx
- SVGA Sonar
- vApprun
- vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA)
- VMware Guest Console (VGC)
- VI Java
- Virtual USB Analyzer.
Whether any of these will make it into full products is anyone’s guess, but it is an interesting move to drive adoption and interest.